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“I was struck by the absence of any color. Gray dominated everything, devoured everything, covered every surface. » A few days before the publication, on December 10, of Nicolas Sarkozy’s book, A Prisoner’s Diary (Fayard), looking back on his three weeks of detention, Europe 1 and Le Figaro published some extracts on Saturday, December 6.

On the first day of his incarceration, according to the extracts revealed by Europe 1, the former president kneels to pray. “It came naturally”he assures. “I stayed like that for many minutes. I prayed for the strength to bear the cross of this injustice”he continues, additionally detailing his Sunday discussions with the jail chaplain.

On September 25, the previous head of state, now aged 70, was sentenced at first occasion to 5 years in jail with a committal warrant accompanied by a provisional execution for “criminal conspiracy”, and to a superb of 100,000 euros, within the Libyan case. He instantly appealed and will probably be tried once more from March 16 to June 3 by the Paris Court of Appeal.

At FigaroNicolas Sarkozy confides that he “written in Bic on a small plywood table, every day”. “I gave the sheets to my lawyers, who gave them to my secretary to clean them up. I wrote in one go and after my release, on a Monday, I finished the book in the following days”he describes.

“I had to answer this simple question: “But how did I get here?” That I ponder about this life so unusual as mine, which has made me undergo so many excessive conditions”he explains.

Definitively convicted in two different instances, the so-called wiretapping case and Bygmalion, he additionally reserves on this e-book some assaults on political personnel, together with Emmanuel Macron who, in accordance with Le Figarowould have “look away” of the conviction and imprisonment of his predecessor.

Nicolas Sarkozy, nut quantity 320 535 in accordance with Le Figaroadditionally describes his detention and his weight loss plan on the Parisian jail of La Santé, product of “dairy product, cereal bar, mineral water, apple juice and some sweet treats”.

The former president, protected in jail by two safety officers, remained locked in his cell twenty-three hours a day, besides throughout visits. “I would have given a lot to be able to look out the window, take the pleasure of seeing the cars go by”he assures.